Live Music Archive

Privacy Policy

Live Music Archive was built with privacy in mind. Neither the app nor the website uses third-party analytics software or advertising. Apple may share some usage data with us through App Store Connect, but only if you opt in under iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements → Share with App Developers.

Your library stays yours. We do not store your favorites, playlists or listening history on our servers. All of that is stored locally on your device, or privately in your iCloud account if you have iCloud enabled.

Anonymous usage data from the website

The website (livemusicarchive.app and livemusicarchive.io) sends us anonymous usage data to help us work out which parts of it people actually use. It is on by default, because there is no account or setting on the site to hang a toggle on, and if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal the site sends nothing at all.

It sends counts of pages viewed by type (the artist index, a recording page), shows started, tracks skipped, shows finished, playback errors, continuous play being switched or moving on to the next show, offline downloads, searches for an artist or within one (only that one happened, and roughly how much it found), and taps on the App Store badge or on a link out to archive.org, which row of the Discover page you tapped, how a list was sorted, that you scrolled far enough for a list to load more, tracks played to the end, and shows that failed to play, plus how many seconds the page was open in front of you, how many seconds music was playing, how long after the page loaded you first pressed play, and whether you are on a phone, a tablet or a desktop. It also sends what kind of site you came from (a search engine, a social network, archive.org, or nowhere in particular; never the page itself), whether you came through a social app's built-in browser, whether the site is installed as an app, whether the play button was on screen when a recording page opened, and which build of the site you were using. It does not send your name, your email, an account, which shows or artists you looked at, what you searched for, or any cookie or identifier. Timestamps are rounded to the minute.

Events are grouped by a session number that is made up fresh on every page load and never stored. It lets us see that a handful of events happened in one sitting; it cannot be used to recognise you or your browser the next time you visit.

The Terms and Privacy pages opened from inside the iOS app send nothing.

Usage data is kept on a server we run, and it is not shared with anyone else, sold or rented. Because none of it is tied to you, we cannot pick out one person's events to export or delete, and neither can anyone who asked us to.

The app collects diagnostics (recent events, logs, and device info) to help resolve problems if they pop up. Diagnostics are stored locally on your device and never uploaded automatically. If you'd like to send them to the developer, you can do so from the Support menu, which opens the iOS share sheet so you choose the destination (typically email to contact@livemusicarchive.app). You can disable diagnostic collection in the Support menu, but this does make it more difficult to offer support if you need it.

By using Live Music Archive, you are subject to the Internet Archive's Terms & Privacy Policy since Live Music Archive accesses the Internet Archive's API for your listening pleasure.

Live Music Archive may access Phish.in's API to stream Phish audience recordings; when it does, your use of that content is subject to Phish.in's Privacy Policy.

Apart from the anonymous usage data described above, there is nothing on our end to retain, export or delete, because your library never leaves your device and your iCloud account. If you have a privacy question or request, email contact@livemusicarchive.app.

Live Music Archive does not sell or rent your data, and never will.